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Recent content by jjoel

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    I GOT accepted to attend CEDARVILLE university :)

    cedarville is a very nice school. yea it'll have its rules but honestly if you disagree with them you only have to live with them for 4 years. anyway congrats on being accepted to a very fine christian school.
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    Question about heaven and Jesus....

    Explain this verse then? I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. Does this contradict catholic belief?
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    Question for Christians

    Well, the beauty of all of this, is that he didn't die and stay dead. He's alive! I mean if he is God he can't stay dead right? I was just giving you a situation that hopefully you could relate with.
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    This is what I say to others about being saved

    See you don't get it! Pride in what? Pride not in me. I didn't do anything! I can't do anything! This is like the ultimate burden lifted off of me! I can KNOW! That I will go to heaven! How???? Because even though I sin, and even though my works are corrupt, and I'm totally depraved...
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    All sins are equal?

    James 2:10-11 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. 11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law...
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    Question for Christians

    Jannah, let me see if I can help you with this question. First thing is, we must realize that we are sinners (have all done bad things) and because of that we are going to hell. Rom 3:23 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Their is nothing we can do about absolutely nothing...
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    This is what I say to others about being saved

    So, if you died today would you go to heaven?
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    SAVED: unto good works

    Saved by faith alone. Works won't save us, infact having faith without having doing anything we can still be saved. What work saves us? The perfect work that Christ did on the cross. With that said, a person who confesses Christ yet lives completely opposite and is never changed one bit is...
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    Is it possible to be saved, but still go to Hell?

    If one is a true born again believer, then he will go to heaven. God declares that individual righteous because instead of seeing their sin he sees Christ's holiness. Thus a saved individual could never go to hell.
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    Can someone help me?

    Sotierology- doctorine or study of Salvation. My belief and understanding from the Bible is that one is saved when 1. he realizes that he is a sinner and cannot make it to heaven by himself 2. Confessing that they are a sinner 3.. by accepting Jesus Christ as their sacrifice for the punishment...
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    Salvation possible after death?

    If salvation was possible after death, then the man in Christ's parable (the rich man) who went to hell and begged up into heaven that he could at least warn his friends/family about hell. Well, why didn't he beg to go to heaven himself? Sorry salvation is something that should be decided here...
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    Purgatory, clearly in 2 Macc:41_45, not in Protestant Bible

    Why isn't purgatory even mentioned in any other parts of the Bible? If it were a fundamental belief such as having faith or believing that Christ died for your sins (which are both mentioned more than once in several different parts of the bible) then why isn't purgatory mentioned? Also once...
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    Why did God make us so weak?

    God made us week so we would have to rely on him in situations that we are unable to handle. With God ANYTHING is possible. I can do ALL THINGS through CHRIST which strengthens me!
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    Homosexuality?

    Rom 3:23 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life. Rom 10:13 Whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved If your friend trusts in Christ as his saviour than he will get to heaven. But...
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    The Bible: Absolute or fallible?

    the modern translation today isn't 100% correct in it's translation from the original manuscripts. however this doesn't throw off fundamental doctorines. for instance it's been recorded that translators have made mistakes with copying numbers and things like that. just fyi, only 2% of the...